EXPO CHICAGO 2016 /Dialogues: MCA Presents: Kerry James Marshall In Conversation with Sarah Thornton
Featuring author and cultural sociologist Sarah Thornton and artist Kerry James Marshall. More panelists forthcoming.
Renowned author and cultural sociologist, Sarah Thornton, will interview Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall to align with the closing of his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (April 23 – September 25, 2016). Considered one of America’s greatest living painters, Marshall explores African American identity in American history and Western art historical movements—from the Renaissance through twentieth century abstraction—in his signature large-scale interiors, landscapes and portraits. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, a survey of his paintings from the last 35 years, will soon travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Presented in partnership with the MCA.
Conversations | Seen and Heard: The Politics of Representation
Conversations | Seen and Heard: The Politics of Representation
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, December 3
Arts organizations have very publicly stepped up a long-overdue dedication to diversity, inclusiveness and equity over the past few years. How best to move forward from here to sustain those commitments, and to ensure that beyond individual projects, they are addressing our past and looking to the future, while offering a platform for plural voices. The participants in this panel will reflect on how they have worked within their communities and with collaborators to consider and offer a platform to their concerns. What can we learn to help create organizations where multifaceted voices can truly be seen and heard?
‣ Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
‣ Maia Ruth Lee, Artist, Salida
‣ Sky Hopinka, Artist and Filmmaker, Milwaukee
‣ Moderator: Larry Ossei-Mensah, Curator and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR
‣ Larry Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle tocha redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and non-profit spaces around the globe. He is Curator-at-Large at BAM and co-curated the 7th Athens Biennial. He has led projects with artists such as Firelei Baez, Ebony G. Patterson, Glenn Kaino, and Stanley Whitney. A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a 501(c)(3) and global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. ARTNOIR endeavors to celebrate the artistry and creativity of Black and Brown artists around the world via virtual and in-person experiences.
‣ Maia Ruth Lee is an artist born in Busan, South Korea and grew up in Kathmandu Nepal. Leeʼs recent solo exhibition took place at Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver in 2021. Leeʼs other solo exhibitions were in 2016 and 2018 at Eli Ping Frances Perkins (NY) and Jack Hanley Gallery (NY) respectively. Lee participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial 2019, CANADA gallery, Studio Museum 127, Salon 94 in New York, Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles. Lee was recipient of the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017 and her work is held in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lee currently lives and works in Salida, Colorado.
‣ Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA, Portland, OR, and Milwaukee, WI. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape–designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal and non-fictional forms of media.
‣ Chana Budgazad Sheldon is Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) North Miami, and oversees all aspects of the museum, while ensuring the diversity that defines the museum’s dynamic community is reflected in its exhibitions and programming. Under her leadership, the MOCA-originated exhibition AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, an official Collateral Event of the 2019 Venice Biennale, marking the first time a Florida institution has presented there. During her tenure at the museum, MOCA North Miami has originated exhibitions including Michael Richards: Are you Down?, Alice Rahon: Poetic Invocations, and forthcoming retrospective My Name is Maryan. Sheldon was previously the Executive Director of Miami’s non-profit exhibition space Locust Projects. Sheldon began her career at Casey Kaplan gallery in New York then its Director. She served on the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places Committee from 2014-2019 and continues to participate in numerous panels and juries.
The Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Conversations program is curated by Art Basel and Edward Winkleman, author and private dealer.
EXPO CHICAGO 2018 /Dialogues: Curatorial Forum | On Immersion And Senses
Panelists | Anna Gritz (Curator, KW Institute, Berlin), Andria Hickey (Senior Director and Curator | Pace Gallery), Sean Raspet (Artist | Jessica Silverman Gallery), Jo-ey Tang (Director of Exhibitions, Beeler Gallery | Columbus College of Art and Design). Moderated by Stephanie Cristello (Director of Programming | EXPO CHICAGO and Editor-in-Chief | THE SEEN).
The format of the contemporary exhibition is one that often relies on sight, and the visual impact of artists’ works within the static space of the gallery, museum, or institution. This panel will trace how the non-concrete senses—scents, tastes, and aural forms—are exhibited in space. Featuring artists and curators whose work has engaged with these senses and their impact on the body, this discussion will navigate different approaches to displaying pieces whose primary sensual interaction deviates from purely sight. From perfume installations, to sonic experiences, and edible artworks, the conversation will trace the impact of senses and immersive practice on recent exhibition histories. Presented in partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI).
ArtistTalk Kerry James Marshall May 29, 2008
Kerry James Marshall on Gear VR
Enjoy one of the most celebrated contemporary art museum exhibitions of the past decade in VR! Kerry James Marshall: Mastry ended its run on July 3, 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, but is now available in its entirety for all to view and enjoy. Flawlessly captured with laser scanning and volumetric photogrammetry, the experience enables you to walk the halls of MOCA as if you were actually there.
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Mark Bradford at the MCA
Contemporary Artist, Mark Bradford's art reflects his study of communities. He uses materials that are seen and used everyday to project his message of community importance. His latest exhibition, The Bradford Project now graces the halls of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.